Program Notes

The title is a mix of French and Persian. Already? Where to? could be its English rendering… The
work is epic in a peculiar sense: instead of relating events, it is the suffering subject and
object of them. I allowed it to do that, so it may shape up to perfection, this was a great chance,
the only chance. Like a child pulling after her or him some toy vehicle across no matter what
terrain; we know that it surely will be impacted by the arbitrary journey — I was fascinated by
these tracesof events as a composer. Because nothing ever just ‘passes’, nothing ever remains
sterile. The music records everything that ever happened — it is in such sense that I mean, that it
is an epic work…”